One of the agencies that provides
regulatory oversight of the Evans Laboratory is the Department of Defense Office
of Clinical Laboratory Affairs (OCLA) at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
(AFIP) in Washington, D.C. This office oversees the execution and
compliance with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Program (CLIP). This
program mandates many things, to include specific education levels for personnel
performing each category of testing, performance of quality control and who
provides professional oversight at each facility.

The CLIP is a mirror image of the
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 that governs civilian
laboratories. The only difference is that CLIP makes exceptions for
laboratories that are deployed and cannot participate in proficiency testing.

The following are links to the CLIP
office and information about CLIA'88.

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